Lying
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (549 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00G1SRB6Q |
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| Number of Pages | : | 230 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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And they tend to be the only lies that good people tell while imagining that they are being good in the process.. Acts of adultery and other personal betrayals, financial fraud, government corruption—even murder and genocide—generally require an additional moral defect: a willingness to lie.In Lying, best-selling author and neuroscientist Sam Harris argues that we can radically simplify our lives and improve society by merely telling the truth in situations where others often lie. As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Mo
"Compelling in its brevity" according to Cakes Green. This is a simple work by Sam Harris and perhaps the least controversial. Although not a exhaustive discourse, Harris provides that lying is both socially and personally damaging and should be avoided.By no means is it easy to remain truthful, amongst a world with double speaking politicians and a competitive job marketing, but that doesn't curtail Harris' conviction. He says "We are talking about a culture poisoned by lies. And that is a culture worth. Potentially Perspective Changing, but Too Short Any book written by Sam Harris is sure to have concrete logic and precision diction, and this is no exception. Dr. Harris presents the case for honesty clearly and persuasively.However, Sam Harris needs to write longer books. His general intelligence and depth of knowledge on these specific areas is clearly enough to fill an honest-to-god book, but instead he only provides these brief essays. This book is essentially a transcribed podcast on why we sh. I'd like a few more useful examples Neil To sum: everybody lies but we shouldn't. A little plodding, but much less so than most philosophy books.I'd like a few more useful examples. As a doctor who takes care of people with lipid (cholesterol) problems, I loved the line to his friend that:Nobody would call you fat, but it would be good for you to lose 30 pounds.
Albeit with tongue in cheek, Mark Twain once wrote: "No fact is more firmly established than that lying is a necessity of our circumstance--the deduction that it is then a Virtue goes without saying." Well, Sam Harris begs to differ. And that's the truth. And differ he does, with an impassioned, straight-shooting argument not only that lies are "the social equivalent of toxic waste," but also that each of us is capable of, and would benefit from, a life led free of the lie. --Jason Kirk. Conversely, Harris argues, even if we're motivated only selfishly, lying less frees us to trust others more. Harris takes his time defining and stratifying types of lies--from adultery to government cover-ups to the seemingly innocuous little white li